And Lincoln impersonator Dean Dorrell of Washington, Indiana, quoted from several of Lincoln's defining speeches, from his first campaign for the Illinois legislature in 1832 to his second inaugural address, a month before his assassination.

Lincoln spent exactly a quarter of his life in Spencer County, from age seven to his departure for Illinois at 21.

Nation, State Honor Lincoln In Various Ways

The US mint will issue a special Indiana Lincoln penny in May.

A month later, the Lincoln Amphitheater at the 16th president's boyhood home in Spencer County debuts a new biographical play commissioned by the state.

Next year, Indianapolis will be one of five cities to host a traveling Lincoln exhibit from the Library of Congress.

And the state has added "Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Home" to the "Welcome to Indiana" highway signs marking the state line.

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